中国出版印刷史是中国科技文化史研究中受到国内外学者关注的热门话题。早在本世纪初的1904年,东京民友社就出版了日本学者岛田翰的《古文旧书考》。1925年,美国学者卡特又在纽约哥伦比亚大学发表了《中国印刷术的发明及其西传》,当时获得相当大的反响,激起了不少学者对中国印刷术历史研究的兴趣,引出了一批对其修订、增补、发展甚至是重复的著作。1953年,法国巴黎又出版 The history of publication and printing in China is a hot topic that has attracted the attention of domestic and foreign scholars in the study of the history of Chinese science and technology. As early as the beginning of this century, in 1904, Tokyo Friendship Society published the “Ancient and Used Books Test” by Japanese scholar Shimada. In 1925, when American scholar Carter published “The Invention of Chinese Typography and Its Western Dissemination” at Columbia University in New York, considerable repercussions were received at that time, arousing many scholars’ interest in the historical research of Chinese typography, Revise, supplement, develop and even repeat the book. 1953, Paris, France and published